Last edited by merthsoft on 19 Nov 2013 11:18:25 am; edited 1 time in total

So I've decided it's time to officially announce DecBot. Many of you who frequent IRC already know about good ol' DecBot; he keeps track of people's "karma" or "scores". If someone does something cool, you can say "name++" (where "name" is the name of the person you are trying to give points to), and their score will increment. Here are some commands that people in IRC can do (note: People on SAX can give people points, but can't do any of the commands):

When Shaun came up with this idea I thought it was a great one, and his implementation does full justice to the idea, in my opinion. My only regret is that Sonlen doesn't seem to like having a score of -300, which reminds me of another point: currently you can only increment (name++) people's karma, not decrement (name--). We've tossed around the idea of decrementing being a voice/op-only command, but so far haven't done anything about it. Any thoughts?

There will have to be a specific check for that, because saxjax is opped, so anyone using saxjax would be able to decrement. That's an easy check to make, though, I'm mostly just adding a post so that I won't forget.

There will have to be a specific check for that, because saxjax is opped, so anyone using saxjax would be able to decrement. That's an easy check to make, though, I'm mostly just adding a post so that I won't forget.

Oh, I hadn't thought of that; it's an excellent point. The main reason I was thinking we might want decrementing would be to counteract any abuse of incrementing, but if it's too much trouble, it's not worth it.

Last edited by qazz42 on 30 Dec 2010 10:32:33 pm; edited 1 time in total

Interesting, this will be like respect on omni, but for chat. Nice idea, although I foresee some problems with people whining about their points, so I THINK there should be some sort of rule to kick people like that (in my opinion)

Seems interesting, but seeing behavior from Omni people I will not name, you'll have to find a solution about people who whine everytime their karma decreases or when it doesn't increase fast enough. It could be a rule disallowing such thing, while it could simply be telling the person to shrug it.

Seems interesting, but seeing behavior from Omni people I will not name, you'll have to find a solution about people who whine everytime their karma decreases or when it doesn't increase fast enough. It could be a rule disallowing such thing, while it could simply be telling the person to shrug it.

Since it's only on IRC, not on the fora, people don't seem to really worry too much about it yet other than having a bit of fun with it, which is just as it should be. Hopefully it doesn't become a problem.

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